Miquel de Palol (Barcelona, 1953) is one of the signal voices of contemporary Catalan letters. An architect by trade, he began to publish poetry at nineteen, and averaged a book of verse per year before…

Between the World Cup and the World Series comes high season for world literature: time to place your bets on this year's candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature. You can read two of the usual…

On September 19, almost sixty people gathered at Karloff Restaurant in Brooklyn for dinner and conversation with exiled Uzbek writer and BBC reporter Hamid Ismailov and Russian-American novelist Boris…

GOwhat: Multilingualism in the US: Do Americans need more than one language?|when:Thursday, September 25, 5:30pm Roundtable Discussion, 7:30pm Reception with European specialistswhere: The Graduate Center,…

It’s an odd sensation to arrive in a place that you’ve never been before, but that you’ve already experienced through someone else’s eyes. Especially when that other person is…

Special Series / Oklahoma 2014If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it…

GO  what: Book Signing for Evelyn Trouillot’s novel The Infamous Rosalie when: Wednesday, September 17, 5 PM where: La Caye Restaurant, 35, Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY  what: Imaginary Gardens…

As a writer of science fiction in the Ukrainian language, Taras Antypovych is a relatively rare phenomenon. In a country where the vast majority of readers can read in Russian, and where the market in…

Hedengrens Bokhandel, Stureplan 4, Sturegallerian, Postadress: Box 5509, 114 85 STOCKHOLM  In the most elegant part of the polished city of Stockholm, in the city’s financial center, in a luxurious…

GOwhat: Imaginary Gardens With Real Robots in Them: On Translating Science Fiction (Ross Benjamin, Terry Gallagher, Michael Kandel)presented by The Bridge Series and the PEN Translation Committeewhen: Thursday,…

As these writers demonstrate, there is no typical exile, and no standard response to deracination.

How does a person follow the path of a fairy tale?

“Salamalaykum, Uncle, your nephew sent me. Said you’d give me the cash.”

When blood is exiled, / nothing binds it to the race.

It is impossible to find one's own path in literature without a certain verbal violence.

Exile has been one of the places where Arabic literature has been able to communicate most strongly across linguistic borders.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m a medium who brings ghosts back from the past.”

From now on I just have three compass points, not four.

I can't open my doors.

There is no typical Nepali experience or typical Nepali story.

My inheritance, / my birthright.

Why did he have to sleep with his bride?

“I thought you'd know the way. You were born and raised here.”

The Iraqi love of water has inspired me to learn about the rivers of every city I visit.

Slowly but surely, exile erases us from the memory of our land.

The surprise shook me like an earthquake.

A visual exploration of the physical and psychological experiences of persecution and forced displacement.

Special Series / Oklahoma 2014If each city is like a game of chess, the day when I have learned the rules, I shall finally possess my empire, even if I shall never succeed in knowing all the cities it…

When I was fifteen, living in Solihull, England, the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest added a new language to those spoken at home (English and Dutch) and those taught at grammar school (French, German, and…

You might imagine that I thought long and hard in choosing my best untranslated book, because China has so many writers and so little of their work reaches the West, at least in English. But I plumped…